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'Kasukuwere desperate for a political comeback'
Self-exiled and former Cabinet Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere is desperate to make a political coming back and has been engaging some fringe political parties to support his 2023 presidential bid , it h...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 19:31hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe mocked for dramatic endorsing Chamisa
MDC Alliance spokesperson Witness Dube has described MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe as an old yellow born who fell off King Lobengula's scorch cart, after her decision to throw her weight behind the ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Gutu calls Gukurahundi genocide 'a small tiny fraction'
Zanu-PF convert Obert Gutu, a member of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), was hauled over the coals on Tuesday after appearing to downplay the gravity of Gukurahundi, calling it...Published: 23 Jun 2021 at 12:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has the power, now what?
ON Friday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa swiftly signed Constitutional Amendment No 2 Bill into law, concluding the process which saw Zanu-PF and its preferred opposition, the MDC-T led by Douglas Mwon...Published: 10 May 2021 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZCTU boss slams 'sell-out' MDC-T MPs supporting Mnangagwa bill
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says opposition MDC-T legislators who last week voted in support of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 were sell-outs.The proposed law seeks to...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
MDC defectors should enjoy last supper
PATRIOTIC Zimbabweans must counter Zanu-PF-sponsored defections from the MDCs by relaunching a competitive and vibrant opposition under a new name and uncompromising leadership that will carry the spi...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:53hrs | | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Chamisa party melting like a candle, says Matemadanda
ZANU PF national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has said that the ruling party will not regret the downfall of opposition MDC Alliance and its leader Nelson Chamisa.Matemadanda said th...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
MDC, an alliance of fissures
Almost a year after the 2018 harmonised elections, the embattled MDC party continues to hit a brick wall in its efforts to be a united party.Before the unfortunate death of MDC founder, Morgan...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
Bravo to Chamisa and team MDC
Besides celebrating the High court dismissal of an appeal to interdict the about-to-start peoples congress in Gweru, we congradulate Advocate Nelson Chamisa for his courageous leadership against eleme...Published: 24 May 2019 at 21:22hrs | | by Benny Gudo
Recycled bad politicians as the last resort of saving Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe is full of talented and equally good citizens who if coopted into politics can turn around the fortunes of our country. Unfortunately for our beloved motherland we seem to be cased. We have a...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 19:04hrs | 1 | by Henry Madiro
Matabeleland restorationists shut out of Zimbabwe national dialogue
The latest violent crackdown on fuel protesters put Zimbabwe President, Mnangagwa in the category of tyrannous dictators and genocidists in Africa. The kind who would unleash the army to brutali...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Israel Dube
A divided people, a defeated people!
The national shutdown or stayaway is developing in interesting dimensions.... It is not as peaceful as earlier predicted and disturbing reports of loss of lives keep filtering in. Variously motivated ...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 13:41hrs | 2 | by Zifiso Masiye
'In politics, treachery is inevitable'
The book 'Junctions' in one way is a celebration of the coup that toppled long-ruling Robert Mugabe, ushering in President Emmerson Mnangagwa - for a long time the former president's right hand man. ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:08hrs | | by Staf reporter
Mavhaire, a political spent-force
The crossing of floors by a political turncoat and former National People's Party member Dzikamai Mavhaire into the opposition, MDC Alliance party is a non-event, as the man has nothing to offer....Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 18:33hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Mugabe now a voice in the wilderness
Zimbabwe has moved on from former president Mr Robert Mugabe's authoritarian rule and the nonagenarian must know that he does not hold sway over the majority of the people, war veterans and political ...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political turncoats, prophets should stay out of polls
WHOEVER coined the phrase 'politics is a dirty game' must have had Zanu-PF kind of politics in mind, given the levels of hypocrisy shown by some of the ruling party's so-called 'clairvoyants'....Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Mugabe we knew, and hoped against
Political EditorIT must be such a difficult time for our political writers and columnists at the so-called State media. Each time they write about the developments in the post-Mugabe era and happen to...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 07:52hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Politicians or prostitutes?
THE value of money is not exactly the number written on that note or coin. The value of money is what it can do for you at that particular time. To someone $10 is the amount that he uses to buy mobile...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Reflection on 2018 elections
Zimbabwe will be going for elections soon and the electorate is spoilt of choice.Elections are fundamental human rights where the people are given the freedom to elect leaders of their choice...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 18:57hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Politicians and Prostitutes
The value of money is not exactly the number written on that note or coin. The value of money is what it can do for you at that particular time. To someone $10 is the amount that he uses to buy mobile...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 09:56hrs | | by Robert Sigauke, Political Analyst, Johannesburg
Will Mugabe's National Patriotic Front project pull the trigger
As we welcome the entrance of the new kid on the block National Patriotic Front into the Zimbabwe's political landscape, we expect voters to critically interrogate the motive behind such mushrooming o...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF political flip-floppers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, fresh from being elected first secretary of Zanu-PF, has been receiving showering praises from the very same people who were at the forefront of banishing him from both p...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
No confidence vote against Tshinga Dube
THERE was commotion and near skirmishes as war veterans from a faction led by Mandi Chimene yesterday passed a vote of no confidence against Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Forme...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I'm a messenger sent by Mugabe'
Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restrictees Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube has called on war veterans planning to demonstrate in solidari...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Concerned citizen writes letter to Bona Mugabe Chikore
A concerned citizen Livingstone Masamba has written a letter to President Robert Mugabe's daughter Bona Mugabe Chikore telling her that he is concerned about her welfare and future considering how her...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 08:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
A salute to Mutsvangwa and his storm troopers
Developments in the President Robert Mugabe led ZANU PF Party, in which the war of liberation fighters, have for the first time in post independent Zimbabwe, called on President Mugabe to relinquish p...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 11:06hrs | | by Maxwell Zimuto
Zimbabwe Is at a Tipping Point: a Close Anatomy of Zimbabwe Politics
From whichever way you look at it, Zimbabwe is at a tipping point. The level of discontent with the political class has reached a crisis point thanks to the betrayal of the people by Zanu Pf a...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 20:54hrs | | by Sipho Phani Sibanda
Mthwakazi - When you don't know who your friend is, your enemy is better!
You replied sis'Thata (Link). Again, I thank you.For reasons of brevity, let me delve straight into exactly the q...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Mujuru has no support- Tsvangirai supporter
The supporter of MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, has claimed that the former Vice President and ZimPF leader Joice Mujuru has no support if the little crowed that characterized her rallies in Bu...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 07:51hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Does Mugabe harbour criminals until they come out?- analyst
A political analyst Revesayi Mutede has expressed suspicions that President Robert Mugabe harbours criminals who are only exposed when they come out of his party Zanu PF."Does Mugabe harbour c...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru seeking political mileage
Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader, Joice Mujuru who recently addressed a handful of her party supporters at Stanley Square in Bulawayo revealed that she has nothing to offer the people of Zimbabwe....Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
ZimPF has nothing to offer to Zimbabweans
Little known Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) Chitungwiza co-ordinator, Marakia Bomani was imprudently quoted in the private press saying his opposition party is targeting the ruling party's strongholds ...Published: 04 May 2016 at 21:28hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
War vets aren't an opposition wing!
There are particularly two stories that have caught my interest over the past week. The stories regard veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, who, as we are all aware, held an indaba with their p...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
MDC-T condemns brutal attack on war veterans
The MDC-T unreservedly condemns the police brutality against the war veterans who had gathered for a meeting at the City Sports Centre in downtown Harare on Thursday, February 18, 2016. The ac...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by MDC-T
MDC-T warns of a civil war
The MDC-T unreservedly condemns the Police brutality against the war veterans who had gathered for a meeting at the City Sports Centre in downtown Harare on Thursday, February 18, 2016. The action by ...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 11:35hrs | 10 | by Obert Gutu
Zanu PF not shaken by PF
The ruling Zanu PF party officials have said they are not shaken by the former Vice President Joice Mujuru political project called People First describing the members of the yet to be launched ...Published: 10 Jan 2016 at 06:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
ZANU-PF will not lose sleep over PF
The recent claim by the private media that ZANU-PF was in the panic mode following a meeting that was held at former ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration, Didymus Mutasa should not be taken seriously ...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 14:06hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
Don't trust 'jambanja boys' Jabulani, Mliswa
The Bible calls them wolves in sheep's clothing, the intellectuals call them turncoats or opportunists, a simpler term is Jabulani Sibanda and Temba Mliswa.It was indeed a sight to behold, the...Published: 17 Jul 2015 at 12:04hrs | | by Nicole Hondo
A snap-shot of the current political dynamics in Zimbabwe
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. - Karl Marx. In 1980 we decided that Mugabe and...Published: 06 May 2015 at 05:47hrs | | by Peter Muzira
Why are Africans to the north of us still unable to own the means of production?
He always puts me to shame each time he writes, this Ghanaian. I am talking about Baffour Ankomah. As always, his latest Beefs pass for a gem. Adorned with well-chosen quotes from our African icons, B...Published: 19 Apr 2015 at 10:31hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
No crocodile tears for Zanu PF rejects
In any shape or form, be it ZANU (Patriotic Front) or ZANU (People First), ZANU PF is simply an organisation beyond redemption and past its use-by date.Zimbabwe is once again at the mercy ...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 07:15hrs | | by Information & Publicity - ZUNDE
Zimbabwe Simply Needs Serious Opposition
As things are running haywire, with the economy at the tip edge as poverty and lawlessness are sinking in, Zimbabweans remain anxious. There is no hope for the way forward. The once supposed formi...Published: 04 Apr 2015 at 23:48hrs | 1 | by Chris Tongogara
What opinion do you hope to get from a rival suitor?
THE OTHER SIDE I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is late, that Nobel laureate from Columbia who passed on this year, just a day before our National Day. I have drawn from his writings, a point my loya...Published: 07 Dec 2014 at 21:10hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
'New Zimbabwe' by 2018
The year is 2018 and the spotlight is on a small country in Southern Africa called Zimbabwe. It is exactly 38 years since the republic of Zimbabwe was established after more than 90 years of Briti...Published: 01 Sep 2014 at 15:41hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Baba Jukwa - Legion of malicious engagement
When Southern Africa took up arms against the white colonial settlers, the late renowned veteran nationalist and founder of the Tanzanian nation, Mwalimu Kambarage Julius Nyerere, wrote a book titled,...Published: 15 May 2013 at 10:35hrs | | by Tonderai Tatura
Jonathan Moyo is missing the point
South African president Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is not a Sadc facilitator, at least according to the gospel by Arthur Mutambara and his Zanu-PF handlers.On September 15 2008, President Robe...Published: 29 Aug 2012 at 14:31hrs | | by Edwin Ndlovu
Please, can the real Jonathan Moyo stand up?
THE long diatribe by the politicially-promiscuous and chameleonic Jonathan Moyo last week attacking the book by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai represents unparalleled naivety which does not bode we...Published: 23 Oct 2011 at 07:42hrs | | by Luke Tamborinyoka
OPINION AND FACT - More Zanu PF Leaks Assessed
Many of Mugabe's regime long-serving bi-polar boot licking cohorts have unexpectedly, to their own shame, been incrementally exposed for their "disloyalty" and disquiet about their "cling-on" wavering...Published: 16 Sep 2011 at 05:49hrs | | by Dududza Veterai
WikiLeaks: The great betrayal!
An anonymous word crafter said, "In a game without rules, nothing is certain, and everything is possible." It is important to explain what these Internet-based "wikis" are.According to web def...Published: 08 Sep 2011 at 04:47hrs | | by Tendai Manzvanzvike
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